Another astonishing film well worth a late night after a long Thursday. Billed as folk horror, Mark Jenkin's film feels more like a psychological horror based on personal and community trauma. What happens to when a community and its individuals have been brutalized by a system and then abandoned when they and their services are deemed no longer necessary?
The cinematography--18mm film with disorienting, unfocused, and claustrophobic closeups--evokes the 1970s. The repetitive narrative (reminds me of a Phillip Glass composition) collapses time and events and figures.
For a good interview with the director, see Tara Judah's https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2023/interviews/enys-men-an-interview-with-mark-jenkin/ .
Well worth seeing once. Even more worth seeing twice to piece together the shattered pieces.
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